The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Reeves, Ryan, Rollins, Thompson
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) Project is mapping wildland fuels, vegetation, and fire regime characteristics across the United States. The LANDFIRE project is unique because of its national scope, creating an integrated product suite at 30-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knapp, Estes, Skinner
Prescribed burning may be conducted at times of the year when fires were infrequent historically, leading to concerns about potential adverse effects on vegetation and wildlife. Historical and prescribed fire regimes for different regions in the continental United States were…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kaufmann, Shlisky, Brooks, Kent
We are in a 'fire crisis.' Many regions of the world are experiencing larger, more frequent, and more severe fires that threaten people's lives, livelihoods, and properties, and the health of ecosystems. Regardless of the causes of this crisis - a common threat that crosses…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dalton
The nation's wildland fire problems have worsened dramatically over the past decade, with more than a doubling of both the average annual acreage burned and federal appropriations for wildland fire management. The deteriorating fire situation has led the agencies responsible for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barazesh
In recent years, the fingers of flame have extended their reach over more of the Earth?s surface. Wildfires are occurring more often and becoming more severe, a perplexing change in fire patterns that threatens to transform ecosystems, reduce biodiversity and even alter climate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Joint Fire Science Program, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Fuels Management Committee, and Sonoma Technology, Inc. are unveiling the prototype of a new planning environment that will help fuels specialists negotiate the confusing array of planning tools. The new…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
This publication has been revised to reflect updates to version 4.0 of the BehavePlus software. It was originally published as the BehavePlus fire modeling system, version 4.0: Variables in July, 2008. The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a computer program based on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann, Murphy
Our research goal is to provide a scale-integrative planning and monitoring tool for wildland fuels and fire management that is specifically tailored to Alaska's ecological conditions and that addresses particular threats (notably climate change) to its natural fire regimes. To…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw
FireFamilyPlus (FFP) is a PC-based software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CFDRS). Fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartuszevige, Kennedy
The results of this synthesis illustrate several important lessons. First, current forest structure is the result of decades of fire-suppression activities, and so restoration will require multiple treatments to bring forests to within the range of historic variation. Second,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Youngblood, Stephens
This Invited Feature focuses on the U.S. national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a multi-site multidisciplinary research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates, treatments that are intended to reduce fire risk…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Fontaine
Dry forests throughout the United States are fire-dependent ecosystems, and much attention has been given to restoring their ecological function. As such, land managers often are tasked with reintroducing fire via prescribed fire, wildland fire use, and fire-surrogate treatments…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
The Natural Fuels Photo Series, a photo guide designed for field use, is a source of high quality fuels data and images for a wide variety of forest and range ecosystems throughout the United States. The original photo series guides were primarily developed for field-based…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Natural Fuels Photo series are a set of photographs with accompanying fuelbed characteristics data from sites where no recent management activity has occurred. They are used to make quick, easy, and inexpensive determinations of fuel quantities and stand conditions when less…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eberhardt
The Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) is a user-friendly computer program designed for scientists and resource managers. The software manages data concerning consumption, emissions, and heat release characteristics of prescribed burns and wildland fires. The original…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vandendriesche
This document provides a collection of informational topics regarding the use of programming tools that have been developed primarily for broad to mid-scale landscape planning purposes to enhance the input and output capabilities of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS). The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
With the advent of LANDFIRE fuels layers, an increasing number of specialists are using the data in a variety of fire modeling systems. However, a comprehensive guide on acquiring, critiquing, and editing (ACE) geospatial fuels data does not exist. This paper provides guidance…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Miranda, Sandberg
Smoke emissions from wildland fire can be harmful to human health and welfare, impair visibility, and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. The generation of emissions and heat release need to be characterized to estimate the potential impacts of wildland fire smoke. This…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Peterson, Littell
A warmer climate in western North America will likely affect forests directly through soil moisture stress and indirectly through increased extent and severity of disturbances. We propose that stress complexes, combinations of biotic and abiotic stresses, compromise the vigor…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Aplet, Christensen, Conard, Johnson, Omi, Peterson, Swetnam
This synthesis provides an ecological foundation for management of the diverse ecosystems and fire regimes of North America based on scientific principles of fire interactions with vegetation, fuels, and biophysical processes. Although a large amount of scientific data on fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wendler, Shulski
Climatological observations are available for Fairbanks, interior Alaska, for up to 100 years. This is a unique data set for Alaska, insofar as it is of relatively high quality and without major breaks. Applying the best linear fit, we conclude that the mean annual temperature…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krivtsov, Vigy, Legg, Curt, Rigolot, Lecomte, Jappiot, Lampin-Maillet, Fernandes, Pezzatti
Wildfires are a serious problem affecting many terrestrial ecosystems and causing substantial economic damage. Understanding the variation in structure of fuels (which are predominantly represented by plant litter and live vegetation) is key to understanding the behaviour of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tsuyuzaki, Kushida, Kodama
Albedo influences vegetation structure, permafrost thawing, etc., in particular, after wildfires in Picea mariana forests in Alaska, USA, while albedo changes with plant succession. To understand interactions between albedo and ecosystem recovery after wildfire, surface albedo…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cornwell, Cornelissen, Allison, Bauhus, Eggleton, Preston, Scarff, Weedon, Wirth, Zanne
Wood represents the defining feature of forest systems, and often the carbon in woody debris has a long residence time. Globally, coarse dead wood contains 36-72 Pg C, and understanding what controls the fate of this C is important for predicting C cycle responses to global…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES